类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Of what? It was I who asked the question, curious to hear what penalty attached to the handsome Rittmeisters temerity.The three men gave glances at each other, as though inquiring which of them could answer. My friend Von Lindheim broke the pause, re...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I was hard at work in my tent. I had almost completed translating the inscription of a small stele of Amen-hotep III, dated B. C., 1382, which with my own efforts I had discovered, and I was feeling wonderfully self-satisfied in consequence, when of...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： On confiding to personal friends, journalistic paragraphists, and other Doubting Thomases, professional sceptics, chartered cynics and indifferent persons, the important and interesting literary news that a proposal was afloat to write a book on the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I BROUGHT myself up on Carlyle and found him the dearest, gentlest, bravest, noblest man. The Life by Froude was dearer to me than the Gospel of St Matthew, or Hamlet, or Macbeth, and that is saying much if the reader only knew me. Carlyle was so nea...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The great, round moon looked down in a flood of silver light upon the virgin forest by the banks of the Scioto, the beautiful river which winds through the richest and fairest valley in all the wide western landthe great corn valley of the Shawnee tr...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Nearly all of the history of Doctor Dolittle's post office took place when he was returning from a voyage to West Africa. Therefore I will begin (as soon as I have told you a little about how he came to take the journey) from where he turned his ship...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Truly Clever know enough to make books of a country by a few days of Pullman and hotelor even by skimming the public library at home, without the bother and expense of travel at all....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Montaigne and Howells letters, says Thackeray, are my bedside books. If I wake at night, I have one or other of them to prattle me to sleep again. They talk about themselves forever, and dont weary me. I like to hear them tell their old stories over...
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简介： IT is just sixteen years since misfortune brought about our emancipation. A disastrous business venture made it necessary to curtail expenses. Rent being an especially heavy item, the hunt for a cheaper habitation commenced. Toiling up and down innum...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Edgar Rice Burroughs 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯
简介： The gymnasium was packed as Jimmy Torrance stepped into the ring for the final event of the evening that was to decide the boxing championship of the university. Drawing to a close were the nearly four years of his college careerprofitable years, Jim...
